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What onion is this?

Ben CBen C Posts: 19
edited May 2020 in Fruit & veg
I inherited an allotment. It had some of these in the ground. What is it?


It's beginning to go to seed whatever it is

Shallots?
Spring onions?
Ordinary white onions that have divided?


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  • Ante1Ante1 Posts: 3,085
    Does it smell like garlic? I think that previous owner forgot to dig up garlic bulb and every sets sprouted.
    Croatia
  • Ben CBen C Posts: 19
    No it doesn't. Definitely some type of onion
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    It's a shallot - that's how they grow, you plant a single bulb and it splits into cloves, just like garlic.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Ben CBen C Posts: 19
    Thank you
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